isanybodylistening - Cost of Living

Cost of Living

What is the cost of living?
The cost of living is the price it costs
to live with food, water and shelter.

Background questions:
What is the average cost of living in NZ?.
The average household spent $956 a week in 06/07 which is about $4015.2 a month
and about $49,712 a year.
75% of the people surveyed said that they lead a happy lifestyle.
23% of the total cost was spent on housing and house hold utilities, 16% was spent on food and 19% on tranportation.
These were the three biggest percentages out of the survey.
Information is from NewZealand.govt.NZ

Why is the cost of living so high?.
The cost of living has increased over the past years because when somethings cheap everyone buys it
so then they increase in price until no one can afford them then they decrease in price a bit so people can afford them but not many and the people selling it are not getting enough money so they lower it but not back to the original price then it repeats
the cycle. Also the if the cost of fuel increases they cost of moving products increases which makes they cost higher.

What I can do to help?
1.Write a letter to the mps or parliment about lifting gst of some food like bread,milk and cheese.
2.Make some posters to get people to save money buy using small cars and not buying things you need.

Video I have made:

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